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soft-shell turtle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
soft--shel-l -tur-tle
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any turtle of the family Trionychidae, such turtles having a carapace that has no scutes and is leathery and pliable at the sides.

Inflected Forms

soft-shell turtles (plural)

Phrases

black soft-shell turtle Chinese soft-shelled turtle Florida softshell turtle Nagpur soft-shell turtle Red River giant softshell turtle Shanghai softshell turtle speckled softshell turtle spiny softshell turtle

Synonyms

trionychid

Questions

What does soft-shell turtle mean?
Any turtle of the family Trionychidae, such turtles having a carapace that has no scutes and is leathery and pliable at the sides.

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